In Which I Overanalyze The Rifter by Ginn Hale

I've been blogging about my reread of The Rifter series by Ginn Hale over on tumblr. (If you're interested, you can check it out at notesfromnayeshi.tumblr.com.) But I'm cross-posting some of the more weighty analysis here, in case there are any Rifter fans among my friends-list. This post is an attempt to read between the lines and learn more about the character of Ravishan, and what his life was like before he met John. There will be *big* Rifter spoilers herein.

Here goes:

Ginn Hale alludes throughout the series to Ravishan’s childhood and events that occurred before John arrived in Basawar, but never really tells us outright what happened. But I think the astute reader can put the pieces together and come to some pretty grim conclusions. (Oh! And tell me if you caught all of this on your first read-through. Because maybe I’m just that oblivious, but I thought this stuff was pretty subtle.)

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